The Crafter's Dungeon: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 1) by Jonathan Brooks (literature books to read TXT) 📕

When she looked inside the forge again, the grate was repaired and was the same dark-colored stone as the rest.  As for her crucible and two rods, they were fused together with the same black substance, making one complete tool.  It wasn’t what she had originally intended, as she wanted the poles to be able to be detached so that they didn’t heat up too much while the crucible was inside the forge, but hopefully with the new stone it wouldn’t be too hot to hold.  Considering the difficulty her Golem had manipulating the rods in the first place, that might even work out better for her plans.

Sandra saw that the two metals inside the container were still there, completely untouched from what she had done with the surrounding stone.  She waited another minute to see if the five flames were going to cause any more damage to the forge, but it didn’t seem to be doing anything.

Although she couldn’t feel pain from excessive heat, Sandra was still cautious with her Golem as she grabbed onto the ends of the crucible poles.  While her construct didn’t have skin that could get burnt and blistered by grabbing onto hot stone, the heat could still damage and melt the relatively thin metal its claws were made from.  Luckily, there didn’t seem to be any damaging heat emanating from the rods, so she was easily able to move the entire crucible contraption over to the spot where six flame jets – three each on top and bottom – would bathe the metal in even more heat.

And that seemed to be the trick.  The Copper blocks started to melt and run together with the Tin underneath; she left it inside the forge for another few minutes as the Copper block completely melted.  When she thought it was about ready, she pulled the darkened Copper-colored liquid out of the fire and brought it over to the stone mold she had set up previously.  The mold, unlike the rest of the stone around the forge, hadn’t been included in the heat conversion like the rest – and Sandra worried that it would crack as soon as the hot liquid metal touched it.

Fortunately, she needn’t have worried as she slowly and deliberately tilted the crucible’s contents into the mold, watching the new Bronze alloy flow into the shape of a rectangular brick.  It was a little difficult for the Golem to maneuver the crucible with any type of fine control, but she managed to bend its arm joints in such a way that she ended up only splashing out a dozen drops or so of molten liquid onto the nearby floor.

Sandra knew the – hopefully – Bronze alloy still had to cool inside the mold, so Sandra went back to the forge, which was quiet and dark now that the flames inside had stopped.  Because she had done…something to the stone, she wanted to know how durable and heat resistant it really was.  She placed the crucible back inside and started to incrementally increase the amount of flame jets being shot out, looking to see if there was a point where the entire thing would fall apart.

By some miracle, even at a full dozen flames raging through the forge, the stone appeared not to suffer in the slightest.  It was almost as if it was not only resistant, but nearly immune; she couldn’t see a single thing affected by the heat inside the forge the surrounding walls and floor.

Her Articulated Clockwork Golem, however, didn’t do so well.  After she had left the crucible inside the forge for nearly five minutes to test the durability of the stone, she walked up to the two poles sticking out, grabbed them both with her clamp-hands, and promptly fell forward as her construct’s body practically melted from the sheer heat the forge was putting out.  Luckily, her falling Golem managed to keep its grip on the crucible just long enough to pull it out of the forge as it fell, though the momentum caused it to be flung a few feet away as her expensive construct was destroyed.

Well…I guess it works?

Sandra was disappointed that her Golem was “killed”, leaving behind a Large Copper Orb, but her test had been a success.  Not only that, but after another couple of minutes her Bronze alloy appeared cool enough to remove from the stone mold.  She wasn’t exactly sure how she was going to extract it, because she had intended to use her Golem construct to do it…somehow.  It was a step in the process she hadn’t thought about, because most molds were made from clay, which was relatively easy to break apart.

What am I thinking?  I don’t need to physically break the stone!

With just a thought, Sandra “ate” the stone around the Bronze block, and it hit the floor with a *clank* once the mold underneath it was gone.

New Monster Seed created using your Monster Seed Origination Adaptability skill!

You now have access to:

Tiny Bronze Orb

Origination Raw Material Cost: 500

Origination Mana Cost: 50

Monster Min. Mana: 50

Monster Max. Mana: 200

 

Currently locked:

Small Bronze Orb

Average Bronze Orb

Large Bronze Orb

I did it!  I did it!  I crafted this all by myself!

She finally understood the way her new skill worked.  The “special techniques” that needed to be used to discover new Monster Seeds weren’t necessarily “special” – they were crafting techniques that she had extensive knowledge of.  She doubted any other Dungeon Core could figure out how to do it without either being extraordinarily lucky or had the same crafting knowledge she possessed – and had the special skill in the first place.  And now that she knew – at least a little bit – what she was doing, she was excited to continue making things.

The biggest issue she was seeing, however, was that her constructs – while being neat to look at